Talk:At-risk students

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Requested move

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the move request was Procedural close. This is a probable misuse of the movereq procedure. — Ω (talk) 07:26, 13 August 2009 (UTC)

At-risk students → Alternative school &mdash; At-risk students are enrolled in alternative schools. Clearly it would make sense to move the entire article into alternative school. It is not notable enough for a stand-alone article or a redirect. It was nominated for AfD recently with this one particular user that said this:

''It is a real term that I'm very familiar with and I'll keep it on the basis of the context that I know it from, I know there has to be plenty of academic sources for it. The term is used in federal grant applications I've contributed to. But don't read this as a promise to go find them.''

If there is no guarantee to find reliable sources, then it should be deleted. I know this is technically not a "move request" but I wanted to advertise this debate that would benefit from wider community input. So please do not give me a hard time by unlisting it. Esthertaffet (talk) 16:58, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Many would call me a deletionist, but this seems extreme. I would remove the calls for action; they're certainly POV and probably plagiarism; but surely the definition is common knowledge, neither challenged nor likely to be challenged. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 18:08, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
 * When I said "delete" before, I meant that I didn't want it to be a stand-alone article. The subject is still important but it would be best to move the article to "Alternative school" or "Alternative school in the United States". It is common knowledge in the United States. But to other countries I doubt it. Esthertaffet (talk) 19:30, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
 * That's (probably) merge. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 22:34, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

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Discussion

 * Any additional comments: I am currently in the process of moving “Alternative school” to “Alternative school in the United States”. So if this was to be moved to "Alternative school", you can move this to “Alternative school in the United States” if it does get moved. Sorry for the confusion. Esthertaffet (talk) 17:34, 12 August 2009 (UTC)


 * And if "Alternative school" doesn't get moved to "Alternative school in the United States", then "At-risk students" can just be moved to "Alternative school". Esthertaffet (talk) 17:44, 12 August 2009 (UTC)


 * No !vote. this isn't a movereq. Go ahead and AfD it or try merging it if you think consensus can be reached to do so. — Ω (talk) 07:26, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
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Merge undone
I've undone this merge. The incorporation into Alternative school‎ never achieved full consensus, and the prime mover behind it, User:Esthertaffet, turned out to be a sock of a banned user. Even apart from that, the merged article lacked cohesion; it read like two unrelated articles jammed together. And I think that's because At-risk students describes a problem, and Alternative school‎ describes in part one of several possible solutions and in part several completely unrelated goals. So while the At-risk students article definitely needs improvement, it's better for that improvement to be done stand-alone. Wasted Time R (talk) 12:09, 17 October 2011 (UTC)

Up-to-date source needed
The claim "Drop-out rates are much higher for minorities, and the number of college-bound African American students has plummeted" is backed up by a source that is over two decades old. I've marked it with a dubious tag. I'm sure an up-to-date source will provide much needed information for the article. — Æµ§œš¹  [ãːɱ ˈfɹ̠ˤʷɪ̃ə̃nlɪ] 00:34, 30 December 2012 (UTC)

Proposed Changes
I am going to work on editing the At-risk students page. I plan on updating the definitions and language used to describe students who are described as at-risk. Current research articles have much broader detailed information and remedies regarding these students.

I would also like to improve upon the citations for information already on the page or find other literature to cite in order to make the article more credible. I’d like to find and research some of the sources already cited to gain further insight into what previous authors found. Also, I want to make the article more current by updating outdated statistics to current data.

Giving the article a global context is important to be able to explain what education means to different students from around the world. I hope to outline the struggle students across the globe encounter when trying to get an education and what it takes to get those students access to that education. Djansen15 (talk) 14:59, 2 October 2014 (UTC)

Revisions
I have been working with this article and have made the following revisions: I have expanded the risk factors and remediation tactics. I edited out dubious information and reorganized existing information. While the article deals primarily with the United States I have attempted to give a more global perspective by adding the other North American countries of Canada and Mexico. More work needs to be done to represent at-risk students globally. Djansen15 (talk) 16:21, 20 November 2014 (UTC)

Adding Info
Hey! These are the changes I plan to be making.

Introduction for "Interventions" There are several different forms of interventions for at-risk youth. Interventions are generally considered effective if they have positive impacts on individuals' risk behavior, academic achievement, pro-social behavior, sexual behavior, and psychological adjustment. Effective interventions can also serve as a preventative measure for future risk behavior.

Addition to list of early interventions:
 * mentorship

YMCA, or The Y, is an organization that promotes youth development, healthy living, and social responsibility. Over the years, the Y has provided various programming, some directed towards at-risk youth. The Y has engaged with social issues such as racial solidarity, job training, and classes for people with disabilities.

Under the Poverty section: Risk Factors Youth that come from low socio-economic status are more likely to be labeled “at-risk.” Impoverished environments can create several risk factors for youth, making them increasingly vulnerable to risk-behaviors and impacted life outcomes as they grow. Growing up in poverty is associated with several risk factors, including those social-behavioral (for example substance abuse), environmental (violent neighborhoods), ecological, and familial (exposure to psychological imbalance). These risk factors are shown to have negative correlations with academic achievement, and positive correlations with problem behaviors. Youth living in households with income under 50% of the federal poverty level are those most vulnerable.

Ksundaramurthy (talk) 13:50, 9 October 2017 (UTC)

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Adding Information
I'm going to be adding information to this page and updating some terminology. I plan to add at-promise youth as another way of referring to at-risk youth. Additionally, I will be adding academic advising as a type of remediation. Finally, I will be providing information on boosting academic resilience in students.

Borman, G., & Overman, L. (2004). Academic Resilience in Mathematics among Poor and Minority Students. The Elementary School Journal, 104(3), 177-195. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org.libproxy.sdsu.edu/stable/3202948

Downey, J. A. (2008). Recommendations for Fostering Educational Resilience in the Classroom. Preventing School Failure, 53(1), 56-64.

Mann, M.J. (2013). Helping middle school girls at risk for school failure recover their confidence and achieve school success: An experimental study. RMLE Online: Research in Middle Level Education, 36(9). Whiting, G. W. (2006). From At Risk to At Promise: Developing Scholar Identities among Black Males. Journal Of Secondary Gifted Education, 17(4), 222-229.

Zhang, Y., Fei, Q.,  Quddus, M., & Davis, C. (2014) An examination of the impact of early intervention on learning outcomes of at-risk students. Research in Higher Education Journal, 26. Cklheureux (talk) 05:47, 6 August 2018 (UTC)

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Adding Information
Hello,

I plan to add information about preventative juvenile justice programs that help at-risk youth.

I will be using this article: de Vries, Sanne L. A., Machteld Hoeve, Jessica J. Asscher, and Geert Jan J. M. Stams. “The Long-Term Effects of the Youth Crime Prevention Program ‘New Perspectives’ on Delinquency and Recidivism.” International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology 62, no. 12 (2018): 3639–3661.

In this article it talked about the context of juvenile justice and delinquency prevention, as well as a study on the long-term effects of the "New Perspectives" (NP) program targeting adolescents at risk for persistent delinquency. I picked this article because it is looking at other preventatives measures of recidivism from at-risk youth. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Areyes12 (talk • contribs) 16:51, 22 April 2024 (UTC)